Kimberly Alters

Bio

Kimberly Alters is a politics editor at Mic. She previously worked at HuffPost and TheWeek.com and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. When she's not obsessively checking for typos, she's probably either watching basketball or cooking herself a meal that's way too spicy.
Trump called her assault allegation 'fake news.' Now E. Jean Carroll is suing for defamation.
By Kimberly Alters
When longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Trump of rape on the cover of New York this summer, it was in an essay about the many "hideous men" she'd encountered in her life. Her allegation was shockingly blunt, as she detailed…
Watch Trump get brutally booed at Game 5 of the World Series
By Kimberly Alters
Baseball might be America's favorite pastime, but after this weekend it might not be the American president's. On Sunday, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended Game 5 of the World Series in Washington, D.C., as the Houston Astros…
Trump has decided to host the next G-7 summit at his own resort
By Kimberly Alters
On Thursday, President Trump followed through on a plan months in the making and announced that he would schedule the 2020 Group of 7 summit at a Miami-area property owned by his family business. Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney confirmed during…
Mexican cartel members kill 13 police in grisly reminder of the country's ongoing drug wars
By Kimberly Alters
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán might be fully locked away in America's highest-security prison, but that hardly means Mexico's drug wars are over. On Monday, members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel attacked roughly 40 police officers in western…
The fight for LGBTQ rights in the workplace depends on this one piece of law
By Kimberly Alters
On Tuesday, oral arguments began in the Supreme Court's latest landmark LGBTQ discrimination case. The high court agreed to hear three separate cases in tandem in order to make a ruling based on Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which…
Alligators, spikes, and the other horrifying ways Trump reportedly wanted to stop immigrants
By Kimberly Alters
When it comes to the border, President Trump has never been particularly empathetic. But a new report from The New York Times sheds some light on just how badly — and violently — Trump wanted to curb immigration. The Times pulled from a forthcoming…
5 Kamala Harris policies you should know that aren't about criminal justice reform
By Kimberly Alters
This Thursday, 10 of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination will descend upon Houston for the third Democratic debate. The festivities in Texas will mark the first time that all the leading candidates — former Vice President…
Income inequality is the worst it's been in 50 years
By Kimberly Alters
As politicians fight over who cares about the "little guy" more, the U.S. Census Bureau has found that income inequality is worse than it's been in 50 years. Not only that, but this is the first time any change in the metric has been statistically…
Whistleblower complaint alleges White House actively buried Ukraine transcript
By Kimberly Alters
The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning released the full text of a whistleblower's complaint that has roiled Washington. The document elaborates upon reporting over the last week that President Trump had a troubling phone call with…
The White House transcript of Trump's Ukraine call is here
By Kimberly Alters
On Wednesday morning, the White House cowed to demands and released a summary transcript of President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The call took place in July and has been at the center of a growing controversy…
House launches formal impeachment proceedings against Trump
By Kimberly Alters
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that she is backing a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Pelosi, the leader of the Democratic-controlled House, had long resisted calls from the more progressive wing of her caucus to…
The Supreme Court is about to decide whether your sexual orientation can get you fired
By Kimberly Alters
The Supreme Court is set to wade into the LGBTQ rights movement once again. On Oct. 8, just the second day of arguments for the fall term, the justices will evaluate whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should be interpreted to prohibit employment…
Justin Trudeau wore racist makeup not once, not twice, but at least three times
By Kimberly Alters
Just one month before the country's national election, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing public outrage over racist photos that have resurfaced from his past. In two separate images, one from when he was in high school and another…
This devastating PSA shows what back-to-school has become in 2019
By Kimberly Alters
It's mid-September. The air is crisp, yellow buses are out, back-to-school commercials are on the air. But this Sandy Hook Promise ad, produced by the Newtown, Connecticut-based nonprofit organization that focuses on preventing gun violence in…
Unpacking Joe Biden's baffling response to the question of reparations
By Kimberly Alters
All 10 of the candidates who took the stage Thursday in Houston for the third Democratic debate had to fight to get there. Some, like Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, had barely scraped…
5 Bernie Sanders policies you should know that aren't Medicare-for-All
By Kimberly Alters
This Thursday, 10 of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination will descend upon Houston for the third Democratic debate. The festivities in Texas will pit Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) against each…
5 Joe Biden policies you should know that aren't Obamacare
By Kimberly Alters
This Thursday, 10 of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination will descend upon Houston for the third Democratic debate. The festivities in Texas will mark the first time that frontrunner Joe Biden, the former vice president,…
Trump fires National Security Advisor John Bolton via Twitter
By Kimberly Alters
As surely as the sun rises and falls, so too shall various members of the Trump administration. On Tuesday, the latest figure to fall was National Security Advisor John Bolton, whose departure from D.C. was announced on Twitter in the usual…
Why 99% of student debt-forgiveness applicants were denied under Trump
By Kimberly Alters
Forgiveness: It's more than saying sorry, but apparently way less than the government can muster. We know as much thanks to a report released by the Government Accountability Office on Thursday that revealed that nearly 99 percent of public servants…
Trump is raiding hurricane recovery funds to build the border wall
By Kimberly Alters
Why go through the trouble of asking for money when you can just ... take it? That seems to be President Trump's approach to building his U.S.-Mexico border wall, given the news this week that the Pentagon has agreed to divert billions of dollars…